Instruct students to draw and decorate paper lunch bags or socks as hand puppets.Each child draws, colors and cuts out facial features from construction paper and adds yarn for hair and a craft pom nose. In a separate activity, students may draw characters or color photocopied characters. The children cut the characters out and glue each to the end of a wooden craft stick. These arts and crafts activities are used for student-created role play or puppet show activities about telling the truth.
Instruct students to fold a piece of paper in half lengthwise (like a hot dog, not a hamburger) and cut one half of the paper up the center to the folded edge. This creates a two-part flip book. On the flap sections, demonstrate and encourage the students to write "truth" and "lie." The students lift each flap and draw a picture of themselves after they have told the truth and a lie. Each child may appear proud or ashamed. Adapt the activity by cutting out images of children from magazines that either look like they have made a mess in the house and told a lie about it or have followed parental instruction and told the truth.
Combine the knowledge of George Washington and his lie regarding the chopping down of a cherry tree. Pre-make a tree trunk, tree top and oversized cherry templates, and instruct students to trace and cut the shapes from colored construction paper. Each student glues the templates together and either writes or draws lies that he told his parents on the cherries. This activity requires the children to tell the truth again during the activity, coming forward about the lies as well as making a vow not to retell them. Adapt the activity to use hand prints to recreate the cherry tree using brown, green and red paint.
Instruct students to use their creativity to construct a piece of art that resembles honesty from any art medium available in the room. Each student may choose something different to interpret lying, such as sculpture, painting, coloring and collages. There is no right or wrong way to conduct the activity. The child may see lying as something very wrong and may use a lot of red color to display the boldness of being dishonest, while others may be more literal and draw a picture of a girl standing in the time-out corner.